Sentences with phrase «on stock buyback»

When a board of directors authorizes a share repurchase program, it typically states either the number of shares the company is interested in buying back or a dollar amount it will spend on its stock buyback.

FPI joined the rally, where ordinary tax payers, elected officials, community organizations and labor unions called for a 0.5 % New York State tax on stock buyback trades, which would mean corporations using their federal tax cuts simply to benefit their shareholders would have to pay a small New York State tax on... (read more)

-- if they — you just use this money on a stock buyback to buy their stock, they're going to raise the price of the stock.

When a board of directors authorizes a share repurchase program, it typically states either the number of shares the company is interested in buying back or a dollar amount it will spend on its stock buyback.

The math on stock buybacks is pretty simple: by repurchasing your own company's stock in the market you reduce the number of shares outstanding, thereby increasing your earnings per share by cutting your denominator (earnings per share is calculated by dividing income by shares outstanding).

He spent $ 6 billion on stock buybacks to reward investors and prop up the share price.

Since the financial crisis, several trends have kept it in check, including a surge in business models which are less asset heavy, a shift in focus toward consumer - facing technologies, and passive investing strategies that reward companies for spending free cash on stock buybacks rather than capital goods.

And also explained to me — you wrote to me saying 91 percent of the S&P 500 earnings are spent on stock buybacks and dividends.

A coalition of groups this week is pushing for the implementation of a 0.5 percent tax on stock buybacks in the state budget they say will bring New York an additional $ 2 billion.

The net payout yield goal for the strategy is 8 %, defined by the amount a company spends on stock buybacks and dividends as a percentage of its stock price (adjusted for the amount a company receives for issuing new stock).

If corporations are getting closer to retrenchment — voluntary or involuntary deleveraging — there will be less money spent on stock buybacks.

The company has spent over 100bln on stock buybacks over the past decade, yet the dividends are small...

Not exact matches

On the other end of the spectrum, Apple Inc shares rose 4.4 percent after the company late Tuesday posted resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand and promised $ 100 billion in additional stock buybacks.

In an interview, Rendle told Fortune the company is looking for its next big deal, even as he said VF would focus on building up its online and international businesses to spur growth, and touted a $ 5 billion share buyback program to boost the stock.

Icahn also said in the interview that he thinks one reason this is going on is that executives are paid with stock, and they think buybacks will boost the value of that stock.

Buybacks, said Aguilar, are done because that's the way companies think they can get the best return on their investment, so with a more volatile stock market and harder access to credit, spending cash on long - term growth becomes the best option.

«There's no question that by far corporate buyback have been the source of most of the buying in the stock market,» Sonders told Business Insider on Wednesday.

The company also approved a new $ 40 billion share buyback program, reaffirming it's on track to complete its current $ 40 billion stock repurchase program by December 31.

He announced an aggressive stock buyback a few months after opposing such a move, provided more details on the 40/20/10 plan first mentioned in June, and recentralized innovation efforts under one executive.

Apple on Tuesday announced a plan to return $ 100 billion to shareholders in a massive stock buyback, confirming recent optimism around tax reform.

«On the capital front, we're also in the middle of a (stock) buyback program that's going at an accelerated pace.

As sellers rotated out of UnitedHealth Group's stock and into shares of Centene on Wednesday after the latter announced its own buyback, Cramer spotted an opportunity in UnitedHealth.

Buoyed by an unquenchable thirst for short - term stock gains, traders and activist investors are mounting pressure on a wide array of companies to cut research and capital expenditures in order to increase stock buybacks and thus boost stock prices.

May 1 - Apple Inc on Tuesday reported resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand and promised $ 100 billion in additional stock buybacks, reassuring investors that its decade - old smartphone invention had life in it yet.

Analysts typically measure whether companies beat or missed their earnings based on earnings per share, which can be manipulated by corporate stock buybacks.

Since 2011, Fortuna has calculated a «buyback ROI,» or return on investment, which tracks post-buyback stock prices and other data points to measure the effectiveness of corporate repurchases.

With stocks in general still trading so high, investors are best off ignoring the short - term hype around buyback announcements and instead taking a closer look at companies on repurchasing binges to see if their share prices have more room to run.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Companies in the S&P 500 are on track to give investors more than $ 1 trillion in stock buybacks and dividend increases this year, according to Howard Silverblatt, a senior analyst at S&P Dow...

The surge came on the heels of the company's announcement that it approved a $ 2.5 billion stock buyback program.

Apple's stock buyback, announced as the company released its quarterly earnings on Tuesday, fits into the trend of companies using the windfall from the new tax law to reward shareholders.

During their earnings call on May 1st, Apple announced a $ 100B stock buyback program plus a 16 % dividend increase payable in May.

Brookfield Asset Management declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Sunday, June 4th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase 82,960,000 shares, according to EventVestor.

The cost of buybacks don't just come from the losses on overpriced stock, they also come from the missed opportunities to invest in growth and innovation.

Companies have money on hand to invest in their operations, but they're mostly choosing to hold that cash on the balance sheet or buyback stock.

Aflac also announced a 5.4 % increase in their quarterly dividend to $ 0.39 a share and increased the size of their buyback plan from $ 1 billion to $ 1.2 billion which I like since it shows management is being smart when it comes to buying back stock on cheap valuations.

It wasn't that Apple guided higher for the next quarter, surpassing future expectations, but rather, offered up another $ 100 BILLION dollar stock buyback on top of all the previous $ Billions allocated prior.

Some analysts predict the company could send as much as $ 180 billion to investors through stock buybacks and dividend increases over the next two and a half years, on top of the $ 300 billion it has already authorized.

Since then, the stock has risen by 27 % on the back of strong earnings and a $ 10 million buyback announcement.

A stock buyback is basically a secondary offering in reverse — instead of selling new shares of stock to the public to put more cash on the corporate balance sheet, a cash - rich company expends some of its own funds on buying shares of stock from the public.

The benefits of tax reform are just being felt, U.S. companies are sitting on a record amount of cash and dividends are a popular use for that money, along with merger and acquisition activity and stock buybacks.

If instead we use total expenditures on dividends plus net stock buyback cash plus change in total debt divided by market capitalization, we don't need to worry about changes in share count due to stock splits.

Perhaps more interesting is how the market is starting to treat the stocks of companies that spend more on capital expenditures rather than buybacks and dividends.

Multi-billion dollar stock buybacks are great for minting billionaire CEOs on Wall Street whose bonuses and stock options are tied to profits and share price performance.

I agree that buybacks at a high valuation are likely foolish, but increasing the attractiveness of the stock to those focused on the immediate payback would seem to make acquiring more shares at a good price more difficult.

Despite the strong start, concern remains among retail investors and portfolio managers that chief financial officers remain too fixated on returning cash to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends.

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That's on top of the $ 6 billion in stock buybacks it announced in Nov. 2016.

Keeping to that promise, Qualcomm raised its dividend by 14 % on Monday and announced a new $ 10 billion stock buyback.

Thought of another way, the $ 22.8 billion Apple spent on its first quarter stock buyback is enough buy any of 275 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index.